Small Business Cloud Solutions

Jeffrey T Borek is a senior technology and communications executive with over twenty years of leadership and technical experience in the Software, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Consulting industries. He is currently the WW Program Director for the Cloud Computing segment across all Systems and Technology Group brands. He is also working with leading industry analysts, customers, and Business Partners to ensure that IBM continues to be a leader in providing Cloud solutions that deliver high value to our customers.

Alan Dickinson

IBM Program Director

WW Cloud Computing

Alan Dickinson

Alan Dickinson leads IBM's Global Cloud strategy for midsized businesses and was a contributor to “Cloud for Dummies: IBM edition for midsized businesses.” He also recently spoke on the future of Cloud in a YouTube FutureCast. In his present role he works across all of IBM's offering teams which develop hardware, software and services to deliver cloud solutions for businesses with fewer than 1000 employees. He is also responsible for helping the many types of IBM business channel partners to successfully deliver cloud solutions to their clients. He is especially interested in how cloud can transform business models and delivers value in new ways.

Ian Robinson

Virtualization Product Line Manager

IBM Systems Software, STG

Ian Robinson

Ian Robinson is the Cloud and Virtualization product line manager for IBM's STG Systems Software team. Ian joined IBM in 2008, following its acquisition of Transitive Corporation, where he was VP of Marketing. For more than 15 years he has focused on delivering to market industry-leading enterprise solutions, working in technology management roles at leading Silicon Valley companies that included VMware, Zone Labs, Brio Software and Borland. He earned an MS in Information Systems from the University of San Francisco.

IBM SmartCloud Entry enables mid-market companies to leverage their virtualized infrastructure and provision cloud resources with a few simple mouse clicks. It's an easy to deploy, simple to use software offering that features a self-service portal for workload provisioning, virtualized image management, and monitoring. It's an innovative, cost-effective approach that also includes security, automation, basic metering, and integrated platform management. Join this webinar to learn about the latest enhancements, and how this solution can help lower total costs, provide better utilization of hardware, and improve quality of IT services.